City of Manila v. Downing

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This is a suit brought by the appellee, the duly elected recorder of the city of Manila, for a declaratory decree determining the validity of a 1967 ordinance by which the city attempted to reduce her salary during her term of office. The controlling issue is whether Act 124 of 1961 (a) merely amended, a section of an 1875 statute on the subject, as Mrs. Downing contends, or (b) repealed it altogether, as the city contends. This appeal is from a declaratory decree upholding Mrs. Downing’s contention that the 1875 statute, as far as cities of the second class are…